Observing the symmetry of attractors

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00191-7MaRDI QIDQ1963426zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey H. Schenker, James W. Swift

Publication date 1 February 2000

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9706009

zbMATH Keywords

average symmetryequivariant dynamical systemprojectionssymmetry of attractors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Attractors of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D45) Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70)

Abstract: We show how the symmetry of attractors of equivariant dynamical systems can be observed by equivariant projections of the phase space. Equivariant projections have long been used, but they can give misleading results if used improperly and have been considered untrustworthy. We find conditions under which an equivariant projection generically shows the correct symmetry of the attractor.

Review text

The paper deals with a different type of symmetry of attractors, i.e. both instantaneous and average symmetries. The authors are mainly interested in the average symmetry of an attractor when its instantaneous attractor is known. This allows lower-dimensional projections compared to an observation space that can distinguish any possible symmetry. They present simple and easily verifiable conditions to ensure that the projection of an attractor in an equivariant dynamical system has the symmetry like the attractor. In the case when the attractor has trivial isotropy, the projection to a faithful representation space is sufficient.

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